IEICE Transactions on Communications
Online ISSN : 1745-1345
Print ISSN : 0916-8516
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Scheduling Algorithm with Multiple Feedbacks for Supporting Coordinated Multipoint Operation for LTE-Advanced Systems
Masayuki HOSHINOYasuaki YUDATomohumi TAKATAAkihiko NISHIO
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2013 Volume E96.B Issue 11 Pages 2906-2912

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In this study, we investigate the use of scheduling algorithms to support coordinated multipoint (CoMP) operation for Long Term Evolution (LTE)-Advanced systems studied in the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP). CoMP, which improves cooperative transmission among network nodes (transmission points: TPs) and reduces or eliminates interTP interference, enabling performance improvements in cell edge throughputs. Although scheduling algorithms in LTE systems have been extensively investigated from the single cell operation perspective, those extension to CoMP where each user equipment (UE) has multiple channel state information (CSI) feedbacks require further consideration on proportional fairness (PF) metric calculation while maintaining PF criteria. To this end, we propose to apply a scaling factor in accordance with the number of CSI feedbacks demanded for the UE. To evaluate the benefits of this scaling factor, multicell system-level simulations that take account of channel estimation errors are performed, and the results confirmed that our improved algorithm enables fairness to be maintained.

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